Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that this is what the smart people are doing, the winners, the people who know how to beat the system. Easy but wrong. People who lie and cheat on their taxes are neither smart nor winners; they are simply cheats and liars. In the end, the money that they steal is not being stolen from a faceless government; it is being stolen from their honest neighbors who as a result must pay not only their own taxes but the taxes that the cheaters did not pay. "It's no game," says Roderick Chu, New York State's commissioner...
...bravado, and Peter Hansen, the Duke's bastard son of conniving mien, carry the play through its weaker moments. When Vindice again draws forth Gloriana's skull--this time as a weapon to poison the Duke, who unsuspecting that she is only a "shell of death" will try to steal a kiss from her in a dark corridor--he handles the scene with a deft blend of madness and humor that make the murder believable and his vengeance justifiable...
...common stereotype is that Italians steal anything and everything ous throughout Europe for lifting wallets from the pockets of unsuspecting tourists. Out on the street they are masters at lifting radio cassette decks from cars. As a precaution most Italian drivers remove then from their dashboards and carry them on their person when leaving their cars on the streets...
...just the carrier. The disease, the bubonic plague, is knowing that our O.R. is just a three-day pass that wounded kids are given before being shipped back to the front. We knit and purl and offer kind words and jokes so bad even Milton Berle wouldn't steal them. For me, joking is therapeutic. It's the only way I have of opening my mouth without screaming...
...Nation. Owen suggested in his decision that only an "oversight" in the copyright law prevented him from awarding the publishers their legal costs. The publishers described the battle as one of principle. Said Brooks Thomas, president of Harper & Row: "This is a significant victory. It says that you cannot steal literary property merely by calling it news...